Hey everyone!
Wow really sorry for the late e-mails there has been a lot of things going on here in the crazy town of Bridgeton! Last week we had a huge come through here they called it a super dercho that took down thousands of trees, damaged houses, and totalled cars it was nuts! Also the reason i didn't email last week is that whole city was out over power, all the people had no lights it was was super hot ,they were all burning to death ha ha it was nuts, we got to do some good service though and cut trees and haul them off! Also we went to Atlantic city last p-day it was pretty cool nothing really special there i did find an old school BYU had i had to get it!
Well really cool experience this last week with one of our investigators named Nayrreth, i think i told you a little about her with her husband leaving her and the kids and what not. So we gave her a Book of Mormon to read 2 weeks ago and the first night she read it for 5 hours she said she couldn't put it down, she now goes and tells all the people she works with how the Book of Mormon is changing her life and how she know Joseph Smith was a Prophet it was awesome the whole time we were just stunned me and my companion, i have never found someone as prepared as she is my whole mission i was so happy the whole lesson. It was awesome she had a question she was like ya i want to wait till the next Prophet comes cause the Bible talks about another prophet we told her hey there is a Prophet here on the Earth! She just lit up and right there i asked her to be baptized and she was like YES i want to be baptized, we set a date for the 29th cause we got to teach everything and she has to come to church 2 more times but she has a real desire. I cannot leave this area until she gets baptized. I am excited.
But then this weekend was really hard i was super frustrated! We walked around in the heat like all day! it was up in the 100s, ya imagine how sweaty we were ha ha it was pretty nasty! It was super frustrating because we got let in 1 house the entire weekend, we worked hard and saw nothing then we had a lot of investigators not show up for church like that Nayrreth lady, then we also caught to of the guys with baptismal dates drinking their beer! It mad me pretty sad and mad at the same time they know better, well enough about the bad stuff and time to focus on the good! But also pretty crazy we saw a drive bye shooting, it scared us so bad they just shot up a house i don't think it killed anyone! but ya this town is going crazy, they need us a lot here! But its all good i love it here!
Well thanks for all your love and support everyone time is going by fast!
Elder Smart
